Photo by Elizabeth Solaka

Recommended Reading

Books:

• Expecting Adam, by Martha Beck
• Posessing the Secret of Joy, by Alice Walker
• The Game of Life, by Florence Scovel Shinn
• Name All The Animals, by Alison Smith
• The Beautiful, by Michelle Tea
• The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath
• The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
• The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
• Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, by Karen Kingston
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
• A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
• This Boy's Life, by Tobias Wolff
• Struggle For Intimacy, by Janet G. Woititz
• Autobiography fo a Face, by Lucy Grealy
• What Narcissism Means to Me, by Tony Hoagland
• Donkey Gospel, by Tony Hoagland
• Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
• Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen
• The Temperature of This Water, by Ishle Yi Park
• Surviving Saturn's Return, by Schostak and Weiss
• The Bitch in the House, edited by Cathi Hanauer
• The Frog King, by Adam Davies
• Take The Cannoli, by Sarah Vowell
• The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, by Susan Orlean
• Fraud, by David Rakoff
• Resumes from Hell, edited by Jon Reed and Rachel Meyers
• Just Checking, by Emily Colas
• Wasted, by Marya Hornbacher

Writers:

Ellen Gilchrist
Alison Smith
David Sedaris
Susan Orlean
Anne Lamott
Sarah Vowell
David Rakoff
Helen Fielding

Collections of Essays:

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, by Susan Orlean
Take The Cannoli, by Sarah Vowell

Memoirs: